Katharina Mischer and Thomas Traxler met at the Design Academy Eindhoven and have been partners—professional and personally—ever since. Their innovative design practice combines the handmade with technology, with a constant eye on sustainability and respect for nature. Along with furniture and household objects—like the Limited Fungi shelves with models of endangered Austrian fungi—the Vienna-based duo envisions conceptual production processes, which sometimes take the shape of kinetic devices. Their award-winning work often requires the presence of an audience, as in their mirrors that work only when two or more people are in front of them or an automated basket-making machine that applies a darker hue depending one how many observers are in the room.